The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-10-30
WAT oANApA KANrn
she wIn ne wiiine 90 Taes slice ef Maine
or q Neund sur, or Money.

o. wound sam OF Money.
WASHINGTON, Oct. Alone OF tho Queor
developments connected with tho Joint CON-
ference on the fisheries Ia the suggestion Of
the Montreal Gazette that the Dominion would
accept the annexation OF northern Maine az
an equivalent for granting inshore fishing
privileges. Such an acquisition, It says, would
DO the moro welcome on account OF It's relation
to the Canadian railway systom. which must
greatly aid tho colonization OF Maine:
canadians have long cast longing eye on this tori
tory which they claim they have been cheated out OF
and though there not the slightest probability or their
claim to beng recognized 1t Ia quite likely that the
Canadian Commissioner will ask for 1t In return for
tho fishing privileges the American fishermen want"
The Canadians evidently tako the ground
that tho Yankee mackerelmen need and must
have, at some price, their inshore fishery privl-
loges, 30 that the main question is what this
price shall be. They Judge from tho course
pursued by the Administration that tho retail
iation measures Of Congress were only buster.
and that our Government Ia anxious to come
to terms. They argue that the last two sea-
sons have been disastrous to American fisher
men because the D9minon cruisers ,.a have
getting Ssi, and Supplies in Canadian ports and
giving them Tic additional run homo to Port
land or Gloucester, as the case may he, when
ever they had inii fare before going out for
pied with thinking what they ought to charge
tho New Engunders FOR restoring to them the
privileges granted under tho treaty OF WASH
The compensation chiefly demanded is. of
course, FREQ trade In fish. and perhaps IN other
systom. A second pr9posnl Is the curious one
Of q eession OF United STATES s territory, made
tho subject Is the payment OF u lump Rum Of
money to Canada FOR, her fishery privileges
Haiifax award, so agreeable to Canadians.
All these sunpositions sweep out OF sight the
Vows. demands, and real needs OF American
sas Tee 90 TRey ns and ss
declared that they are satisfied with their Ash;
thcy want no renewal OF sided reciprocity,
IN which tho present duties on Canadian fish
should be sacriiced for the greatly diminished
to the fact that during the period when in lack
Of other arrangements. the Canadians granted
very few Americans would pay the small sum
demanded each year. and an attempt to raise
the price Of licenses caused them to be almost
Perhaps neither the British nor the Canadian
authorities understand tho real attitude OF tho
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Government. Congress has certainly sup
ported them thoroughly and has gone further
tration in ignoring the legislation OF Congress
and to the assertions OF the fishermen an air OF
insincerity. Hence the British and Canadian
conference under the impression that tho mon
OF Portland and Gloucester arc bent on got.
ting, not so much those ordinary commercial
already entitled and the Withholding OF which
forms a Just ground OF complaint, hut the use
OF thought with the Canadians Is not what rep
aration they should mako for, depriving our
fishermen Of rights. but whether they are to
get FREQ trade land. or some millions Of money
as tho result Of the Washington conference